Child Job
A job that runs within the context of a parent job. Child jobs can have their own child jobs and tasks.
Environment
An Itential Platform deployment context (development, staging, or production) that contains isolated job and task data.
Job
A workflow execution instance that may contain child jobs and tasks. Jobs represent the execution of a specific workflow.
Parent job
A job that contains and controls child jobs or tasks beneath it in the hierarchy. Parent jobs can be either root jobs or child jobs themselves.
Root job
The top-level job in a hierarchy. Root jobs are not triggered by other jobs and have no parent job above them.
Task
An individual unit of work within a job that performs a specific function. Tasks can be Manual, Operation, or Automatic.
Task requiring action
A manual task that needs user intervention to proceed with execution.
Workflow
A defined sequence of tasks and logic that automates network operations. Workflows are executed as jobs.